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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3153165, member: 19463"]As the results roll in, I find it interesting that winning entries can win only one of the three categories by doing so well in that one that they erased the effect of the other two. At the end, it might be interesting to run a chart on the number of winners that won all three, just two or only one category. </p><p>As expected, not all races drew the same number of voters so some 'losers' got more votes than other 'winners'. It might be interesting to see if the races that drew the most activity were the closest or the ones that more people found obvious. </p><p><br /></p><p>We often hear that you can prove anything with statistics improperly manipulated. The trick is to learn something of note from the statistics without resorting to manipulation designed to prove the result selected ahead of time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3153165, member: 19463"]As the results roll in, I find it interesting that winning entries can win only one of the three categories by doing so well in that one that they erased the effect of the other two. At the end, it might be interesting to run a chart on the number of winners that won all three, just two or only one category. As expected, not all races drew the same number of voters so some 'losers' got more votes than other 'winners'. It might be interesting to see if the races that drew the most activity were the closest or the ones that more people found obvious. We often hear that you can prove anything with statistics improperly manipulated. The trick is to learn something of note from the statistics without resorting to manipulation designed to prove the result selected ahead of time.[/QUOTE]
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